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SOUTH AMERICA 



A TRAVEL NOVELTY 



The Collver Tours Company was the Pioneer in this 
new play-field of the traveler, having, in Nineteen 
Hundred Five, announced The First Tour of South 
America 

THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PLANE OF TRAVEL 
EXCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT 



The Collver Tours Company 

368 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON 

Correspondents in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos 
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FOREWORD. 

To take a trip to Europe has become one of the commonplaces of life,, 
Of late a visit to Japan and a tour around the world have become the mode 
and have seemed the ne plus ultra in travel. But all is not yet said. A few 
years more and the query will arise: Have you been to South America? Do 
not then feel content in the thought that you have seen the whole world, 
while one half of it, the Southern Hemisphere, is still unexplored! 

The Collver Tours Company, in Nineteen Hundred Five, announced the 
first tour of all South America ever planned by any travel agency and were 
thus the pioneers in this delightful and novel field for the pleasure seeker, 
which is now attracting very general attention amongst travelers of the 
advanced class, to whom this little book makes its appeal. 

Do you know that on the other side of the equator there is a city of a 
million inhabitants, which in appearance will bear comparison with the cap- 
itals of Europe and in some respects will surpass any of our own cities? 
That there are nations whose size, resources, and present development 
entitle them to the respect and attention of the whole world, that there is 
scenery more magnificent than any which this country or Europe affords 
and that there are comfortable, oft-times luxurious means of travel? 

Mr. John Barrett, formerly American minister to Argentina and Panama, 
and recently minister to Colombia, makes the following declaration: "I 
would that it were in my power to divert a small part of our travelers for 
pleasure and observation from Europe and Asia to South America, and 
particularly ts Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil. A diversion of study 
and investigation of this kind would exert a mighty influence in educating 
the North American people to a realization of the fact that we should devote 
more time and energy to making the intimate acquaintance of our Latin 
neighbors. It would demonstrate how ignorant many of us are of what 
Latin America can do and is doing under favorable conditions of temperate 
climate and national wealth. It might teach some critics of Spanish America 
to remove the 'beams' from their own eyes before they point out the 'motes' 
in those of their southern neighbors." 

So to the tourist who is in search merely of pleasure and novelty, to the 
traveler who desires more breadth of view and some real knowledge of our 



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friends below the equator, and to the business man who would look over a 
field affording many opportunities for the development of trade and com- 
merce, this tour to South America offers an unrivalled opportunity for 
pleasure, education, and profit. 

The Collver Tours are now fully understood to be in a class apart in the 
business of travel and it is only necessary to say that this remarkable Tour 
of all South America will be carried out on the same high plane as our 
journeys to Japan and Round the World. 

The tour is limited to about ten members so that prompt application for 
membership, with the usual Fifty Dollar deposit, is necessary. 



"THERE AND BACK." 

To sail o'er southern seas is a delight-giving thing. With agreeable 
companions, comfortable staterooms, a generous table, balmy days and 
moonlit nights the time from New York to the first port of call will seem 
very short. 

BRITISH WEST INDIES. 

A charming diversion will be afforded by a call at Barbados, one of the 
most interesting of the Windward group. A few days later we are in 



BRAZIL. 

Pernambuco is more properly called Recibe, the name derived from an 
immense coral reef which, surmounted by a stone wall, forms a splendid 
harbor. A few hours among the strange sights of this tropical city with 
more than one hundred thousand inhabitants will be keenly enjoyed. The 
picturesque old Dutch settlement of Olinda will be visited, as well as Mag- 
dalena, San Antonio and Boa Vista. 

Two days later we pause at Bahia, the second largest city in Brazil, a 
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iarity of Bahia is its gaily colored houses; another is that the many negroes 
here resident are on an absolute political and social equality with the whites. 
Campo Grande and Victoria will be visited and the Ascensor taken to the 
Upper Town. 

Three days later we sail into the wondrously beautiful Bay cf January. 
Always it is compared with the Bay of Naples or the harbor of Sydney, and 
always to its own advantage. Eighty miles in circumference, the bay is 
dotted with emerald islands of enchanting beauty encompassed with glorious, 
mountains. Rio di Janeiro, a great city of 700,000, is beautifully situated 
upon twice as many hills as were the boast of Rome, while seven times as 
many summits stand guard around. 

Some days shall we tarry amid these charming scenes. The beautiful 
parks and plazas, the palatial residences and gardens, the fine public build- 
ings and old palaces, the cathedral, and other handsome churches will 
demand our attention. The drives include visits to the City Hall, the 
National Museum, the Library of 200,000 volumes, the Academy of Fine 
Arts, the Race Course, the Cathedral, Market, Government Buildings, 
Zoological Gardens, Botofogo, and the Mint. The last is unique in char- 
acter, printing revenue and postage stamps as well as money and having 
in connection with it a charity where hundreds of poor boys have been edu- 
cated. This building cost a million dollars; the printing office half as much. 
The principal street, the Rua do Ouvidor, is called one of the most interesting 
thoroughfares on the globe. 

The excursions will include Tijuca, Santa Theresa, the island of Paqueta, 
Corcovado by rack railway, a trip through the charming suburban districts 
by Government Railway, and, of course, the famous Botanical Garden. 
This is one of the most remarkable in the world, considered second only to 
that at Buitenzorg in Java, and is a fascinating spot. Here are rare treasures 
from foreign lands with a multitude of specimens of native flora. A magnif- 
icent avenue of royal palms extends nearly half a mile from the entrance, 
with an archway of green a hundred feet above. 

A visit to Petropolis, the Versailles of Rio, will be a feature of the visit. 
The journey thither of twenty-five miles, first across the bay and then by 
train up the hills to a height of 2,800 feet is no less delightful than the city 
itself — the summer capital of Brazil and the permanent residence of the 
diplomatic corps, where from December to May there is a continual round 
of gaiety amid scenes of entrancing beauty 

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Leaving Rio by Royal Mail steamer we stop next day at Santos, famous 
as a great coffee outlet. The usual carriage drive will include the Ypiranga 
Museum, and an excursion will be made to S3.0 Paulo. 



URUGUAY. 

Three days more sailing, and, leaving the tropics behind, we arrive at 
Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, with a population cf several hundred 
thousand. Like Rio de Janeiro, this city has much scenic beauty, but with 
its broad streets, its massive granite architecture, its buildings cf Italian 
marble, its National Theatre, perhaps the handsomest modern building in 
South America, the Cerro, the Parks, its Campo Santo, a unique necropolis 
by the water's edge, its Avenue Julio, the finest in the Southern Hemisphere, 
its beautiful suburbs, lovely gardens and tasteful villas, it has become worthy 
of its natural advantages, and the carriage drives including all these features 
will give an unusual degree cf pleasure. 



ARGENTINA. 

The night sail from Montevideo up La Plata to Buenos Ayres is made in 
luxurious steamers, which may remind us of those on Long Island Sound; 
but here a dinner of twelve courses, with a bunch of flowers at every plate, 
is included in the fare. 

Now we have reached the greatest city under the Southern Cross, a city 
cosmopolitan in character, in appearance comparing favorably with the 
capitals of Europe. It will surprise many people to learn that the streets 
well lighted and paved, the street-car system, the telephones and electric 
lights, the sewerage and water-works are said, by Mr. Barrett, to be equalled, 
on the whole, by no city in the United States. Although inferior in location 
to Rio and Montevideo, Buenos Ayres is called one of the handsomest and 
most prosperous cities in the world. Upon the banks of the river, here 
twenty-eight miles wide, have been constructed a series of levees, an immense 
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which comes from all quarters of the globe — enough to bring more than 
four hundred and fifty million dollars' worth of goods, a larger commerce 
than that of either China or Japan. On the four corners of one of the prin- 
cipal streets are four banks whose combined capital is larger than that of any 
four banks in New York City. At the stock exchange the excitement and 
speculation rival Wall Street. A group of Government Buildings cost 
$600,000,000. The ride around the city is as far as from Baltimore to 
Washington. The Park of Palermo encloses 840 acres of forest and garden. 
There is an extraordinary display of fine carriages, on Sundays and Thurs- 
days easily numbering a thousand. Of stores and business establishments 
there is a greater number than in any city of the United States — so says 
Frank Carpenter. There are great daily newspapers, one of which, La 
Nation, has the finest illustrations of any daily in the world, while La Prensa 
has the most complete and costly newspaper building used exclusively by 
the paper. The people are intelligent and energetic, the women bright and 
beautiful. Carriages will be taken to all things and places of interest, among 
which may be noted the Botanical and Zoological Gardens, Avenida di 
Mayo, Paseo de Julio, Calle Florida, Plaza Victoria, Palermo, "La Prenza," 
the Cathedral, the Jockey Club, the Race Track, Museums, Art Galleries, 
Parque Lezama, Recoleta, Belgrano, the immense Wool Market, the Market 
and Church of Santo Domingo, and Riachuela. Excursions will be made to 
the model city of La Plata, and to Le Tigre. 

A trip will also be made to Rosario, 200 miles distant, the centre of the 
cattle industry. It may surprise some citizens of our middle-western metrop- 
olis, to hear that Argentina has the largest abbator:s in the world. We pass 
ranches of great extent; many have an area of from twelve to forty square 
miles, others 300 square miles, supporting 60,000 sheep, 40,000 cattle, and 
10,000 horses. The return is made on one of the beautiful Parana and 
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FALKLAND ISLANDS AND 
STRAIT OF MAGELLAN. 

Now it is time for a change from the great plains of Argentina, and, after 
a return day's visit to Montevideo, a steamship of the Pacific Steam Navi- 
gation Company is taken for the West Coast of the great continent via the 
Falkland Islands and the Strait of Magellan, stopping at Port Stanley. 



CHILE. 

At Punta Arenas, Chile, in the Strait, we shall be in the "farthest south" 
city in the world, "beating" Cape Town by twelve hundred miles, and the 
Strait shows scenery probably rivalled in its kind only by the Inland Sea of 
Japan and the Fjords of Norway. 

A stop is made at Coronel, giving an opportunity to visit the remarkable 
under-the-sea coal mines, and then we leave the ship at Talcahuano, Chile. 
Here begins a railway journey of nearly four hundred miles through the 
beautiful valley of central Chile, which, apart from its appeal to the eye, is 
interesting as the land of the Arcadian Indians, who alone of all the native 
races successfully repelled the Spanish invaders. At the end of the day's 
journey we arrive at Santiago, the capital of Chile, which, though but one 
third the size of Buenos Ayres, is no less attractive to the traveler, and it 
may be mentioned that, with those of the Argentine metropolis, its hotels 
are claimed to be as fine as any in the world. In the heart of the city a 
barren rock, called Santa Lucia, has been converted into a vineclad pleasure 
resort of picturesque beauty. The Capitol, Library, University, Astro- 
nomical Observatory, Quinta Normal, Museum, Garden, Cathedral, Rec- 
oleta, Palaces of Justice, the Alamedas and avenues are all worthy of ad- 
miration, and will have our attention during carriage drives which will also 
include a country excursion to the greatest of the famous Chilean estancias. 
The excursions will include Mercurio and the great Race Course of Santa 
Lucia. From Santiago we shall obtain splendid views of Aconcagua and 
Tupingato of the Andes, called the highest mountains on this hemisphere, 



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the former having an altitude of twenty-three thousand feet. A fine ride of 
five hours on the great Trans-Andean Railway brings us to Valparaiso, 
which boasts a beautiful harbor and is the busiest seaport on the west coast. 
Carriages will, as usual, be taken for visits to all the "attractions" of the city 
including the National Theatre, the Naval School and the Parks, and the 
Ascensor will be taken to the upper part of the city for the exceptionally 
fine view of harbor and town. The excursions will include Vina del Mar, 
a place attractive because of its fine climate. 

Now we begin our sail up the west coast, which is more interesting than 
the sailing down, since we are always in sight of land and up to Guayaquil 
are daily calling at the various ports, the stops usually including Coquimbo, 
Huasco, Taltal, Caldera, Chaneral, Antofogasta and Iquique. At the latter 
port those who wish may take the train to the great nitrate beds which have 
added millions to the wealth of Chile and, indeed, the civilized world. The 
steamer, in such case, will be regained at Pisagua. 

Another interesting stop will be made at Arica, where was fought the great 
battle between the forces of Chile and Peru. In less than a week from 
Valparaiso we land at Mollendo, from which point is made a side-trip which 
is one of the most interesting features of the whole journey. 



BOLIVIA. 

We take the train, and climbing up from the sea through sandy canons, 
we cross the desert of Islay where sand dunes and the famous moving sand 
crescents have their peculiar charm. In the pleasant afternoon sunlight we 
enter the narrow Vita Valley and arrive at the fair city of Arequipa, the 
second in size in Peru. On the lower slope of El Misti, a symmetrical 
volcanic cone 19,200 feet above the sea, both climate and scenery are here 
delightful. If any are tired of travel they may rest for a week in this quiet 
town, paying a visit to the Harvard Observatory with its little American 
colony, perchance patronizing the Baths of Jesus, a few miles away. 

But all mountain lovers and novelty seekers will take the first train with 
the Director for La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. We have a long day's rail- 
road ride ascending The Andes to a height of 14,800 feet, then down to 
Lake Titicaca, 2,166 feet lower. All the next day and well into the night 




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we sail over the blue waters of this noble lake, long believed to be the largest 
in the world at so great an elevation — passing the Island of the Sun and 
having to the east a panorama of ever-increasing splendor; snow-clad giants 
with the magnificent Mount Sorata, where Mont Blanc would be lost 
among the foot hills. 

We continue by rail across the plateau to Tiahuanaco and Alta La Paz, 
thence by electric road down the steep slopes of the canon to the strange 
city of La Paz, 1,000 feet below the plain, yet 12,000 feet above the sea, the 
largest city in the world (population 60,000) at so great an elevation and one 
of the most picturesque cities on earth. Yet far above to an altitude of 
20,000 feet towers snow-clad Illimanni, a continual source of delight. The 
streets, the people, and the Market Place are of unfailing interest. The 
Indians in their bare feet and split trousers, the cholo women with their 
gaily colored dresses and numerous shawls, the pretty brown babies, the 
droves of llamas, a, to us, new kind of burden-bearer — everything is curious 
and fascinating to the traveler. 

A visit to the Market Place, Park, the Bull Ring, an extremely rich gold 
mine near by and an excursion to a finca down the valley will be a part of the 
program. 

A return visit to Arequipa with a visit to the Harvard Observatory will be 
made on the way to the port of Mollendo, where we again embark for a con- 
tinuation of the up-coast trip to Callao, the port of Lima, the steamer making 
incidental stops at Lomas, Pisco, known for the extensive vineyards of its 
countryside, and Cerro Azul. 



PERU. 

The third day out from Mollendo we disembark at Callao, the only harbor 
on the coast where the steamers go up to the dock. A half hour by electric 
cars brings us to Lima, the capital of Peru, where the fine Hotel Maury will 
make us more than comfortable, however long we tarry. 

Lima, "City of the Kings," which is one of the most alluring of the world's 
great centres, was founded by Pizarro, whose remains lie in the Cathedral. 
Carriages will be taken for visits to the Cathedral, House of Inquisition, 
Art Gallery, the Museum, the College of San Marcus, the old churches, 



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the Exposition Grounds, the Plaza de Toros, and all other things-to-see. 
The near-by excursions will include Chorillos and Barrancos. 

A feature of the stay will be a trip up the Oroya Railroad, not only the 
highest in the world but a remarkable engineering achievement, with bridges 
innumerable and V's as well, one slope being ascended by means of five 
tracks one above another. 

The scenery is of the grandest description, so that the long day is replete 
with wonders. Oroya is but a village beyond the divide, but a good dinner 
and bed await us there. We shall continue on by rail next morning to visit 
the famous Cerro de Pasco copper mines, upon which Americans are said to 
have spent already $10,000,000, or by carriage down on the other side of 
The Andes towards the tropical country to Tarma. 

Thence we return to Lima, where those who are interested may expect to 
see a Peruvian bullfight. At the conclusion of our delightful stay in Lima 
we proceed to Callao and embark again. It should be mentioned, by the 
way, that these steamers along the coast are exceptionally comfortable, 
having large staterooms opening on deck and providing an excellent table. 

The next day after leaving Callao we stop at Salaverry, the port of Truj illo, 
named for his birthplace in Spain by Pizarro. An excursion will be made 
to the Gran Chimu. Other stops on successive days are at Pacasmayo and 
Paita, the latter being a great shipping port for "Panama" hats. 

ECUADOR. 

On the fourth day from Callao we stop at Guayaquil, famous for the 
exportation of chocolate and bananas. Carriages will be taken for a drive 
to everything of interest. 

ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. 

Four days later we are due at the city of Panama. Carriages will be 
taken to the Ancon Hospital grounds, to the Cathedral, and churches, into 
the ruins of old Panama, and an excursion will be made to the Island of 
Toboga. Naturally we shall give especial attention to "the big ditch" — 
the famous Culebra Cut, Gatun Dam, and the Bas Obispo and other excava- 
tions for the great Canal, but we shall not forget to admire the luxuriant 



tropical vegetation and enjoy the many interesting native types. We cross 
by train to Colon, the terminus of the Canal on the Atlantic side, whence we 
make two excursions, one to San Lorenzo, the old Spanish fort, and another 
on the Chagres River. 
We then sail for 

JAMAICA. 

Arriving at Kingston the second day and proceeding across the island by 
motor-car or carriage over beautiful roads to Port Antonio, where we stop 
at the beautiful Hotel Titchfield for the night. On the way we go to the 
Blue Mountains to visit the Government Botanical Gardens. 

Then we return to Kingston and embark for the final run to the Home= 
land, arriving in New York four days later, after an experience as delightful 
as it is novel for the North American traveler. 

The number of guests is limited to about ten, the leader is an expert on 
South America, and the arrangements in every detail will be in accord with 
the Collver Tours' invariable policy of absolutely the best of everything 
— away-from-the-usual at every possible point, as in the case of our Japan 
and Round the World Journeys. 

Early registration is important as affecting the choice of steamship 
accommodations and because of the small membership. 



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Time Schedule 

of The Grand Tour of 

ALL SOUTH AMERICA 

The preceding pages giving Descriptive Details. 

The length of time shown as at the various places is approximate and is 
subject to slight modification when made necessary by the various Steamship 
Companies' schedules. These are not definitely announced at the time it is 
necessary to send this book to the press: a definite schedule of dates will be 
issued shortly before the departure of each party. 

The Annual Tour will begin the latter part of January or the first of Feb- 
ruary. 

(The Collver Tours Company announced, in Nineteen Hundred Five, the 
First Tour of All South America.) 

See preceding pages for Details. 

First Day. Steam from New York by one of the excellent steamships of 
the new "Brazil Line" established and maintained jointly by the 
Hamburg=American Line and the Hamburg-South American Steam- 
ship Company. 

BRITISH WEST INDIES. 

Sixth Day. Stop at Barbados. 

BRAZIL. 

Thirteenth Day. Visit Pernambuco. 
Fifteenth Day. Call at Bahia — San Salvador. 
Eighteenth Day. Arrive at Rio de Janeiro. 
Twenty-seventh Day. Leave Rio. 
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URUGUAY. 

Thirty-first Day. To be spent at Montevideo. 

ARGENTINA. 

Thirty-second Day. Arrive at Buenos Ayres. Excursions to Rosario and 
La Plata. 

Thirty-ninth Day. Leave Buenos Ayres. 

URUGUAY. 

Fortieth Day. A return visit to Montevideo. 

THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 

Forty-fourth Day. Stop at Port Stanley. 

CHILE. 

Forty-seventh Day. Arrive at the city "Farthest South" in the world, 

Punta Arenas, in the Strait of Magellan. 
Fifty-first Day. Call at Coronel. 
Fifty-second Day. Arrive at Talcahuano, the port of Concepcion, and take 

train to the capital city, Santiago. 
Fifty-seventh Day. Leave by train over the Trans-Andean Railway for 

Valparaiso, a delightful five hours' run. Excursion to Vina del 

Mar. 
Sixtieth Day. Sail from Valparaiso by one of the comfortable steamships 

of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, beginning the trip up the 

west coast of the Continent. 

Incidental stops are made at Coquimbo, Huasco, Taltal, Caldera, 

Chaneral, Antofogasta, and Iquique. 

Members have the option of taking the train from Iquique to 

Pisagua for the purpose of visiting the famous nitrate beds, returning 

to the steamer at the latter port. 
Another call is made at Arica. 




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BOLIVIA. 

Sixty-sixth Day. Arrive at Mollendo and disembark, .lomtms port is 
made a journey of extraordinary interest into the interior, including 
the city of Arequipa, an ascent of The Andes to a height of about 
fifteen thousand feet, Lake Titicaca, Tiahuanaco, Alta La Paz, La 
Paz, and a view of the Island of the Sun and of Mount Sorata. Return 
to Mollendo. 

Seventy-third Day. Sail in the evening. The steamer calls at Lomas, 
Pisco, and Cerro Azul. 

PERU. 

Seventy-sixth Day. Arrive at Callao and proceed to Lima, the capital of 

Peru, half an hour distant. 

Excursion over the wonderful Oroya Railway to Oroya, returning 

to Lima. 
Eighty-fourth Day. Proceed to Callao and again steam northward. 
Eighty-fifth Day. Stop at Salaverry. Excursion to Trujillo and the Gran 

Chimu. 
Eighty-sixth Day. Call at Pacasmayo. 
Eighty-seventh Day. Stop at Paita, the port of Piura. 

ECUADOR. 

Eighty-eighth Day. At Guayaquil. 

THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. 

Ninety-second Day. Arrive at Panama (Ancon). Excursion to the Island 
of Toboga. Visit the Culebra Cut and various other interesting 
points of excavation in The Canal Zone and proceed to Colon, the 
Atlantic terminus of the Canal. 

Excursion to San Lorenzo and on the Chagres River. 

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JAMAICA. 

Ninety-ninth Day. Arrive at Kingston, Jamaica, and continue by motor- 
car or carriage over beautiful roads to Port Antonio. The Govern- 
ment Botanical Gardens in the Blue Mountains will be visited. 
After a night at Hotel Titchfield return to Kingston. 

One Hundredth Day. Sail from Kingston for New York. 

One Hundred Fourth Day. Due in New York, the entrance to the Home= 
land. 

Charge, inclusive of all expenses excepting wines and laundry charges, 
On the Highest Possible Plane, Fourteen Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars. 

AS TO ENVIRONMENT. 

In considering our charges in comparison with those of other firms we 
wish to direct your attention to the elasticity of the term "First Class" as 
applied to travel accommodations. Perhaps one illustration will suffice to 
indicate how certain tours may legally be announced as affording "first- 
class" accommodations and yet not give the kind that the best type of 
travelers demand — and it is those who demand the best obtainable to 
whom The Collver Tours Company makes its appeal. Legally, the word 
"first class" is satisfied, on American railways, by the "Day -coach" — that 
is all a "first-class ticket" calls for — while the — but there is no need 
to pursue the illustration further, except to point out that it applies to hotels, 
the rooms in hotels, the kind of carriages used for the drives, the atmosphere 
of privacy, the absence of conspicuousness in methods, and many other de- 
tails that mark the difference b2tween mere first-classness and what discrimi- 
nating people require. As a policy, we are not appealing to those who are 
satisfied with ordinary travel conditions, no matter how much respect we 
may have for them personally. Their wants are well supplied in the world 
of travel, and have been for many years, by large and, in their field, admira- 
ble organizations, so they do not need us. 

But The Collver Tours Company is, we believe, alone in providing assist- 
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It is obvious that the necessary environment for the satisfaction and 
pleasure of our clients cannot be secured without greatly increased expendi- 
ture over the cost of a journey over any given route by the "usual" methods. 

South American hotels of the better class are notoriously high in their 
charges; comparable in this way among the hotels of the world only to those 
of New York City. A low charge is simply incompatible with the environ- 
ment that you, to whom we make our appeal, expect and demand in travel. 

A less charge for a similar tour necessarily involves for you an undesirable 
and disappointing environment. 

The Collver Tours Company announced, in Nineteen Hundred Five, the 
First Tour of all South America. 



Conditions and Suggestions 

Each Party is limited to a membership of about ten persons. No place 
is considered reserved until a " Retainer " Of Fifty Dollars each has been 
paid. The balance is payable not later than one month before departure. 

Included in the Rates: 

First-ClaSS railway, steamer, and hotel accommodations for the route 
and time as advertised in the itinerary foregoing. It is the intention to 
use none but the best hotels, and, excepting only suites, we invariably 
order the best rooms in them for our guests. The first-class steamship 
accommodation is assigned in accordance with the rules of the various 
Steamship Companies. 

All Transfers between hotels, stations, and wharves. 

Baggage : Transportation, transfers, and porterage of both large and 
small pieces, with an allowance of one large trunk, one steamer trunk and 
hand baggage. 

Carriages, for all the "sights" and excursions, as indicated in the 
program. 

All gratuities to hotel servants, porters, train-guards, and Steamship 
Stewards, while with the Director, and for all sight-seeing. 



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Services of the Tour Manager, local guides and interpreters. In short 
every necessary expense is included, if one excepts such distinctly personal 
matters as wines, mineral waters, and laundry charges. 

Cautionary. The contractor cannot hold himself responsible for ex- 
penses occasioned by the irregularity or changes in schedule of steamers, 
imposition of quarantine, or any casualties or circumstances beyond his 
control. All possible care is taken of passengers' baggage but no respon- 
sibility can be accepted in the improbable event of loss of, or injury 
thereto. 

Should the contractor consider it advisable to withdraw the tour herein 
announced on account of war, quarantine, or any other cause (of which, 
however, there is no likelihood), the return to members of all monies paid 
shall absolve him from all liability in respect to such tour. 

Clothing 1 . Medium weight clothing and outer coat will be required for 
the excursions to "hill" stations, but for a large portion of the journey 
the very lightest of summer clothing will be necessary. 

Dinner dress according to taste of the individual. 

Personal Funds. The Collver Tours Company issues Letters of Credit 
and Travelers' Cheques through Messrs. Brown, Shipley & Company, of 

London, at the usual banker's rates, available in all parts of the world. 
Particulars on request. 



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r 0o^r Tours] 

Away-from-the-usual 



We Refer Yon 

To any of the following travelers who have personal knowledge 
of the Collver Methods : 



Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Taylor, 

New York City. 
Miss Charlotte D. Leney, 

Montreal. 
Dr. William Briggs, L.L. D. 

Cambridge University, Eng. 

Mrs. H. P. Adams, 

Boston. 
Mrs. L. T. Hay, 

Los Angeles. 
Mr. Lorenzo Leland, President First 

National Bank, Ottawa, 111. 
Mr. S. E. King, 

Ottawa, 111. 
Rev. Fred B. Hill, 

Providence, R. I. 

Mrs. J. A. Miller, 

Gloversville, N. Y. 
Mrs. William Perkins Tyler, 

New York City. 
Mr. George Harbeson, 

New York City. 
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Dietz, 

Omaha. 
Mr. Gould Dietz, 

Omaha. 
Hon. Harrison L. Beatty, 

Bainbridge, N. Y. 
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Walker, 

Westboro, Mass. 



Rev. A. Z. Conrad, D.D. 

Park Street Church, Boston. 
Mr. J. B. Tangeman, 

Cincinnati, O. 
Mr. John C. Thompson, 

Crescent Athletic Club, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus D. Roys, 

Elkhart, Ind. 
Mrs. C. F. Holt, 

Salem, Mass. 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Parker, 

Quincy, 111. 
Miss Margaret Bull, 

Chicago. 
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Woodbury, 

Rochester, N. Y. 
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Motley, 

Rochester, N. Y. 
Mr. John Eaton, President Board of 

Trade, Pittsburg. 
Maj. Lee S. Smith, 

Pittsburg. 
Curtis E. Pierce, Esq., Attorney, 

Bay City, Mich. 
Mrs. W. W. Blackmar, 

Boston. 
Miss F. R. Brewer, 

Boston. 
Mrs. William Vernon Wolcott, 

Boston. 



If you have no acquaintance amongst the above, other names will be 
given on application, of people in your own part of the country. 



The Collver Tours 



( AWAY-FROM-THB-USUAL ) 



Round the World 

EXCEPTIONAL JOURNEYS UNDER ESCORT 

OF FROM FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS 

TO A YEAR IN DURATION 

At the Rates of 

$1650 — $2350 — $2750 — $4750 

THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PLANE OF TRAVEL 

EXCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT 

UNIQUE ROUTES 



Japan- China 

TOURS INCLUDING CHARMING PLACES 
RARELY VISITED 



INDEPENDENT TRAVEL UNDER ESCORT 



THE COLLVER TOURS COMPA1SIY 

368 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON 

34 WATER STREET, YOKOHAMA 

Offices and Agents all around the World 





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